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Keeping an art form relevant to the next generation is essential for its survival, and a skateboard company in Juneau, Alaska, is using the Native formline art of the Northwest Coast to both celebrate this cultural tradition and create some sweet decks.
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After being damaged by a 2011 car bomb, some Brutalist architecture in Oslo is up for demolition. While the debate between the protection of Brutalist architecture and those who see its heavy concrete designs as ugly and bleak is not infrequent in preservation, these buildings include five murals by
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Lampooned by newspapers and cartoonists, the Armory Show may have since become a symbol of the once awkward marriage of European avant-gardism and American mass sensibilities, but at the time it was also a war over what art was and could be.
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This week, you can go to a talk with cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum, visit an art exhibition where the work is on mobile phones, watch murals take shape on the streets of the Bronx, and much more.
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Not long ago, artist Jerry Vile placed a giant Crisco can in front of the "Monument to Joe Louis," a giant sculpture of a fist in downtown Detroit, as a lewd but hilarious and spot-on commentary on the city's bankruptcy. Local media glommed onto the stunt immediately: it was a welcome break from the
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CHICAGO — Last month in Halmstad, Sweden, two teenage girls took a selfie together in a bathroom while wearing balaclavas and holding a knife. They would go on to rob a fast-food restaurant making off with a mere $400 before getting arrested. The cops found that selfie on one of their smartphones. H
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A time dominated by the likes of Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Botticelli, the Italian Renaissance was a stunning period for art. A new website from Oxford University Press’s Grove Art Online and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC gives an introduction to this world.
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I left Katherine Bradford’s first museum show, August, at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine (June 29 – September 1, 2013) wishing for an in-depth survey. As it is, there are eight paintings ranging from 10 x 10 inches to 68 x 80 inches — a sumptuous sampling — exhibited in one gall
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There’s something in the air about art and reading. In addition to Summer Reading at The Hole, the New York Studio School is presenting a show called Reading the Space: Contemporary Australian Drawing 4.
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One of the most pleasant surprises to pop out of the August doldrums is Summer Reading at The Hole — particularly for the lemonade that the gallery has made out of its lemon of a space.
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News broke last month that celebrity Lindsay Lohan would soon be getting her own "docu-series," aka reality TV show, on OWN, the Oprah Network. Now that she’s out of court-ordered rehab, she'll sit down with Oprah for an exclusive interview about all things LiLo, airing August 18th; her reality TV s
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Lego released a new kit this month with no instructions, almost entirely white bricks, and the hopes that you'll turn the blocks into mini-modernist experiments.